The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 2, 1909, Page 1

oh ights | at the A-YOP: ex) Evans Hughes, York, and John A. of Minnesota, we In front of the at the head of the fat 11:90 thie morn 50 passersby | Is. stopped and the two men, who or may yet be, United States, fad congratulate each geod fortune in en- at the beautiful and Johason exchanged a few parted to meet fn the New York with Governors Virginia, and Prosident Chil | Betor General Nadeau, of New York, and Chilberg met today, no refer eto the governor's at the exposition y—Saturday—for ‘ berg criticised the time Mr. Chil or shook hands few formal cour. | Paterna ee) e *. WHISKEY; * ANCE TABOOED. «| *) * * asa result the * @ dance, to which # im and pa ® Hon looks for # relish, will not # for the first # Ory of the # lion of a re & hilarious * to blame. The # tribe have put ® on future # stomp dance \s # to suffer * * ee eS HER AF TO HIS IN LAKE. i Die wedd':, i after he had an Bh from drowning on, BG. Calvert os the Hone Telephone Bellinghan, «, oh. te the 75 of hin £ leather bay sat and to Mablishment of Bis intended bride Belling! Mt the summer Hes, on the shor OH arm of Loke vert, who BEBRE 10 have bows OM Yestord Eatiernoon MH. ¢ Wed froin Arcs Alter bn 11, FOR Mec ihc) He Wie jot | Dunlop, the physician who attended [Ss DROWNING AND HE THEN ROWNS HIMSELF TEN PAGES Uot Olea NG BLESSINGS ON Wn AD Ic H Woman Who Was So Hor- ribly Burned Has Peace- ful End at Her New Found Home. BY BONNIE WHEELER | With her husband tightly clasping one hand, Alice frightfully months Algonqalr morning dre sleop—the awakening The loving frier cared for Mra. Pw was removed fr room of the tal a few w end was near gle and softly side with loving fingers poor scarred who was than It at the Fusenidec ed ago while elub ped burn more employe early yesterday Into a peaceful that knows ho sleep de who have senidge since she m the basement ttle General hoapt kha ago, knew that the knew that the strug with death would seon be over withdrew from the bed-| leaving the dying woman alone her husband, George Fase nidge, who, sinee that fatal morn ing last August, almost a year ago. when his young wife received the| | burns from which she died yeater day, has given ble every thought for Tiny feath songsters were just beginning to cheep. A Sabbath! torning quietness brooded over all. | Mra. Scott, whose home was opened }to the seffering woman when her condition was made public by The Star, entered the room shortly be-| | fore 6 to find the fast-sinking wom: ! jan with qniet eyes fixed on the! flowers Just outside the window a) faint smile on her tips. This smile! still hovers there, as if in thanks fo the noble woman who gave a) part of all she had that Mre Fase nidge might die in peace, the smile which shows that Alice Pusanidge's last hours were peaceful ones, all the pay that those who made the dying hours of thie young woman bright, will get here on earth, but| the higher tribuosl, which i« cog-| hitant of all—what {te verdict wit de, all well know | From Gloom to Sunshine. Taken from the gloomy basement room where, as a charity patient, Allee Faeanidge had lain for many months, the young woman, who then was past hope, was removed to the little home of Mrs. C, FP. Scott at Columbia City. There she was fared for by Mre Holmes, the trained ntrse who gave up other | work that she might give her en tire time to the care of Mrs Pass | nidge. Everything that loving wo! men could do was done, that her! death might be peaceful | The last hours of the unfortunate woman were peaceful ones The wunshine for which Alice Passntdge | longed while she lay In the dark basement room of the Seattie Gen eral hospital poured into her at | j } | at the Scott home all afternoon Bat urday, the fresh alr whieh has put peace into the little woman's soul since she was moved to Colambia | City, and which, because of the ar-| rangement of the window at the} hospital, was demed her, puffed the curtains and carried breaths of| fleida and meadows, and perhaps tiemories of that far off home in! Pngland which she was never to see again, all that last day, All Tried So Hard. Tvo mach cannot be said in praise Mrs. Scott, Mra. Holmes, Mr her every day since she was rv moved from the hospital, and the many kind hearted men and wome who have called and helped to make the dying woman and her stricken bosband happy, The Engtish reat dents came nobly to the front when they knew of the plight of these two Pnalish children, as did many others Butterworth & Sons will attend |to the funeral services, which will |he held Tuesday at 2 p. m | short distance from shore when, ap parently, he wae selzed with cramps. riles fomped into a canoe when Calvert commenced to struggle and | paddled desperately toward the drowning man, bot arrived just as he sank from sight The drowning was witnessed by Mra. Piles, Mise Mary Piles, Mina Alene Utterback and Miss | Pearson, who were seated on the front porch of the Piles residence, | Search for the body wae started jediately but no trace of the y was found until this morning. Calvert came from South Bend, Ind., a short ume ago. The parents) have been notified of young Calvert's tragte sath, MACKINAW GROUNDED teamer Mackinaw arrived in t terday from St. Michaels vsel grounded on the Yukon flor paving Unimak pass, on st wee got off with the {the 8, & Corwin and « Hehter 1 150 tone of cargo was taken before she floated HOME E: DITIC MONDAY, AUGUST Ss SEATTLE, WASH., 2, 1909, HIS AIRSHIP WRECKED AND HIS HOPES ARE SHA TTERED " Aged eS Levi, Who. Would Be a Successful Aviator, Makes Unsuc- cessful Attempt to Fly. With loving but skeptical neigh borw standing mind and two score ‘ gathered from the nearby yards and. bail lots perched on stupa, fences and nelghdoring stoops,” Thomas Levi rede his Airehip to destruction at t ome out beyond the h end of the Heacon '} car line, yesterday afternoon Fully three score persons—men women and children, nelghbora of the man who had dreamed him welt into a bellef of future fame and fortune, saw a huge kitelike eontrivance skid down an inclined track, saw & man, hopeful and ptal Wart, despite his pumping away de hand power prop vice, and then saw man and machine go to emash on a stump not five feet distant from the place where the Airship wheels left the ineline track Willing Hands at His Bidding. end of the Willing hands hastened to assist the would-be ay from the Wreckage and jumy at bin bid and call, as the wrecked machine was dragged back within the big tent under which it had been con structed And then the neighbo turned away, some laughing and jesting her comfort about an “old man's bug,” others unthinkingly gloating in “I told him Died at Early Morn. jo” remarks, while a few—just a The end came at 6 o'clock yester: | f¥—were silent |@ay morning. The alr still held the| The few who understood were jeootness that comes during the silent because they subconsciously jhours when the sun hides his tace.| ‘lized that the dream of a life time had been almost dissipated the Impetus that had made a man laugh at the three score and ten allotment had been almost squelch ed, and the very soul of a soulful old person had been almost robbed of its dearest hope Hope Springs Eternal Yea, almost, but not completely for the old man, denpite bin firet failure, insisted using the ut most care in pushing the remaining ‘Had Dane’. ‘te Years of Moment When He | Would Dash Off Into Space and Fly Away. hopes, Joya and sorrows that have found lodement in the Levi ho: Hehind the closed door of the cottage UWiat he had mortgaged to bulld the Alrehip, Thomas Levi with only the few comforting words of Dis wife, knew what it m to meet defeat face to face Halieving that he had solved the problem of arronnutios by propel ling his airship by hand, Thomas Levi, who was born in Canada more than 75 youre ago, spont bis last went to bulld the machine that wae Wrecked yosterda it was not very far to the last cent, elther for Levi bie made his living by sharpening razors and knives, and most of hiv earntng® have been in vested in the little place, at 1923 Waite #t,, which he willingly mort THOMAS LEVI. gaged & few months age in ord to complete the ship that was revolutiontxe air navigation. portion of what was to be ywoen| He believed that. by moving the & great oir craft back beneath the| propeller by hand it would be pos tent under whieh it onstruct:|#ible to fly remain in the air ed, Aud, as all worked with might a® long as one desired, but, “the and main, he set his jaw, crushed | best laid seh o' mice and men down his disappolr and the And wo today Thomas Lavi ta few words he spoke were in re-| nursing bia bruised body and per gard to repairs atid another (rial haps more Injured spirit and plan Meanwhile all of the crowd had ning # new airship. Hie courage melted away, the boys and girls off/and bellef in his invention Is in to thelr play awte “Sat able aod he will try again. taught In that hard » f niment, they were off with We May Vet Ply fr and shout, knowing naught wet as the alrebip neared the Of the little life tragedy enacted In| end of the skid on which it was the wrecking of the Levi aeroplane, | (to start, the belt which moved the The grown-ups, who undervtood and! wings slipped off, and this is the stayed to help move t reck back reason mas Levi gives for the into tte tentehed, after saylug the | falture of the machine to fly few encouraging words they could Whatever the reason, the huge slipped away, and Thomas Levi, machine is a wreck and the hopes who has dreamed for the last 10 of 10 long years have come to years of mounting that ladder of naw, aplie the discour hope and eee which crumbled ment of the failure where he and fell from under bim Just ae he pected euctess, Thomas Levi, with was reaching for the toy ung! a courage born of a Deltef in his yesterday afternoon, was left alone invention, will make another trial that faithful little wife who) May his dream in some way re has had ber part in tile dream, | alized. And who knows? Who ean t @ as ehe has had in all other | say? Here's hoping. CHEF IS ARRESTED AND WOMEN ARE HORRIFIED: SUIGIDE. PACT EXECUTED Bt MAN AND WIFE Selina Dies First and Wife Then Places His Arms About Her and Takes Dose of Poison. (Ry United Pree) LOB ANGELES, Aug. 2.—Carry ing out a suicide pact, Mra, W. A Findley shot her husband yester day im their apartments at 3040 | Hover at. and then took cyanide of potassium herself. Lefore she died she carefully arranged his arms in a loving attitude about her, then embraced the corpse, and thus \the remaina were found clasped to- gether. She seems to have hidden | grounds, was arrested last ¢ jon a charge of drunkens entered the exposition gates. the cook's person, three bottles of | whiskey were taken, which the ar) rested man deetured cooking whiskey said he was bringing out to the fair grounds to use in his cooking statement caused sternation when it was learned at! the ¥. WL GA the revolver with which she killed Findley, but the glass containing poison dregs was found beside the bed. Acquaintances attribute the murder and suicide to insane and unnecessary jealousy on the part of the woman. « pair were de votedly attached to one another, and seemed to care only to be to-| gether, seldom indulging tn out side enjoyment. The police think the couple were! financially embarrassed and agreed to die by common consent. Friends assert, however, that thelr mon tary condition Was not #0 ove whelmingly dismal as to call for murder and sulcide eee eee MUNICIPAL COWS TO SAVE THE INFANTS, * * * * * # CHICAGO, Aug. 2—The # three municipal cows donated # to save the lives of Infants in # the congested districts of the # city were delivered today * * * * * * * * One cow will be placed in the stock yards distriet of South Chicago, another in the dis trict back of the stock yards and the third on the North weat Side PO ee eee eee FEAR 1S FELT FOR OVERDUE STEAMER (Hy Unie DURBAN, Natal, Aug. 2.—Some | alarm has been created by the non arrival of the British steamer War atan, from Sydney for London, She left Port Natal July 26, and since then has not been seen by any other vessel A search bas been Inatl tt for her. The Waratah has 15,000 people on board SSS ete eee eee tees COOK AT Y. W. ©. A. BUILDING c SAYS HE USED BOOZE IN HIB COOKING. FORGETS TD DRESO AND CAUSED STIR eook at the Y. a the exposition | ening | as he! From | Harry Furst A. building on were only | ond whieh he | onsiderable cou tacular Flight Down Yes- ler Way at Early Hour building today. as \ | THE SEATTLE PARTON Aootoo ROcHOLL © Insists That Metropolitan Company Pay Taxes on Its University Holdings. Tract Albert KB. Partwh, county ansespor returned an assessment of $489,000 oe 48 per cont of a valuation of & million dollars, on the Metropol Building Corporation's leasehold, to the board of equalization this aft ernoon Mr, Parish tried to get the mer be of the board to fix an asne ment at thelr ting thie morn ing. Thoy very carefully aide ater ped that duty, however This is an equalization board.” declared Mr. Rutherford, “Our duty ix not to assess property but to equalize Anpossments Mr. Ktutherford’s point ts we taken said M. J. Carrigan view was echoed by Cha Abrams The hearing on the assenamen will be held the afternoon of Auguat 18 Put the assessment at @ million dollars,” sugwested Fred Sawye Later Mr. Bawyer suggested two} million to the assessor Mr. Parish went a letter to the board this morning, in which he goer into detail on the Metropolitan tax controversy, He tells of a §5 000 and a $40,000 assessment, and goes on to say: “While thie county has pald ite pro rata state tax} upon both of these assessments, it! has been unable to enforce collec | tion of either tax, the same aggro: | | gating over $3,000 | | Tht Hugh Garity Makes a Spec- aia Se ee ee ee ee BANK CLEARINGS, Seattle. : aringe today . $1,823,512 cen te Tacoma. Clearings today ..9 Halances eee eee es ee . * * * * * * Portland. * ® Clearings today $1332.61 @ ® Halances 183,535.00 # * errr r er TTT eee: CHILD SUFFERS A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT | ON STREET TODAY Part of the be rtah foot of little Marcell Clockford, daughter of Mr and Mra. Ernest Clockford of Van couver, Was crushed at Fourth av and Union et. this noon by a heavy truck carrying @ threeton botler her right leg scraped and bruised, She was taken to the City hospital, The child ix 2% years old Her parents are guests at the Wilhard hotel, and are here attend ing the exposition, She ran into the street while her mother’s atten ton was distracted | ‘LYNCHED BY MOB it Is pot the custom of the building to have liquors weed in cooking. In fact, the ladies in charge of the} Today. building expressed thelr appreciae oe a tion of Chief Wappenstein's prompt Clad ot 3 } nexs in arresting the cook before |ecthing, Heete Cory a nena he had an opportunity to surreptt: | crested coasideratie | commotion tiously use the stimulants in bit! when he made a apectacuiar fight | cooking, which might bave resulted ths patra = in complications imagine poattion guard house this morning down Yesler Way this morning | j from police headquarters to Second | “a¥., before he was captured Garrity wandered into police headquarters shortly after 3 o'clock this morning, Walking calmly past Acting Captain Uryant in undress too horrible to ruret wae eaned from the ex uniform, Garrity stepped into the booking office and gazed curiously about ‘What are you doing here?” de manded Desk Sergeant Meany Without @ Word Garrity took a running jump through a closed crash of glass startled A Fremont his laurels verely thrashed tv « happened young ho for re ir th Heath's nd countere the ther p with thes Jin the cthee ee ee ee ey te ee window. Th th officers and they started after ity who was speeding down EMERGON HEATH PROVES Torrance gt. to Youlor Way. Desk HIB PUGILIGTIC ABILITIES Bergeant Meany led the pursuers and overtook | underate othing the fleeing man in just aa he reached md av, and Yealer WITH HOOK TO JAW Alvah Emerson Heath, th gold who is the pride of reath to an ided ar ar pe Garrity sustained only alight cute on the hands when he leap through the window. He was ta} back to the #tation and later tr fe to the county jail. Garrity Says he rooms in a lodging house at Pifth av. and Yealer Way, He could give noe reason for hie nocturna migration to the police headqu tera. An insanity commission w inquire jnto his mental today ENDS LONG BOOZE FIGHT WITH DEATH ther night when ng and and « r way q engaged It insulting eo upon the pair Hur hided the thelr ineonduet, Apr Heath ¢ and rently x what they thought was on Heath's part, one of 1 to swing on ufficer teked which Seeing the trom} condition ne panion went mway nt the masher epra plight of hi md heedium In the jaw | et and made haste tlempt to capture nfident that from bie beat rang t away protracted for sealed his room at trunk, H the Post 1007 r w ling V. Roger Inteliteer Seventh a fetta Heath made n Di « rowdles, He f turned on the gas and funday afternoon wateh wa will keep future. found th ”y landlord His nie inning, wiving evidence that he | had bee enall 4 hours before vame old wt wit! ight ated held down nition in St ‘ed for | went to a akte hee eee eee? LIKED DOG BETTER THAN HER HUBBY, (By United Press.) ORANGE, Mase, Aug By the will of Mrs, Mary F fnow, of Harttord, Conn, Miss Phil C. Miller, a spinster liv ing here, wit lve the In come from $10,000 for taking care of Mra. Snow's two small imported dogs. The deceased left her husband but $2,000 wy on man. Por years he good bookkee Paul and ther drunte PERREPEES TPES EY E AvY-P. ATTENDANCE, * terday admissions, 21,067 & ‘Total admissions 1,666,084 & * a indintintintintietintintinMinMntednd i* * \* \* ON EVE OF TRIAL (By United Pree) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 2. George Johnson, slayer of a farmer named J. W. Moore, was removed from jail at Platte City this morning and lynched by a mob, Johnson's trial had been set for today, Johnson shot Moore from ambush on dune 20. SEATTLE DOCTOR IS NOT WISELY A doctor out op Capitol Hill ts the father of @ toddling boy who ha proclivities for running away, After three or four expertences of | his son, the r bethought him of an expedient. He had constructed a pen with tall woven wire sides, 14 feet and reaching the 40 fe« from the poreh to the sidewalk The her placed the ¢ playth in the pen and him in r Shortiy af ward she b rked out and behold MOCK MARRIAGE 10 AE GIVEN THS GIRL (By United Press) ATCHISON, Aug. 2—There will be a very unique social affair tn Atehison about the middle of this Tmonth, A certain girl has never married, and as all her sisters mar ried and enjoyed pretty clothes a wedding presents, her father an nouneces that he wants do as well by her, and will give her a mock wedding She will have as mach money to Ay) spend on clothes as iP tke were to be # bride, and after she has them all made her father will give her a party and notify all the kin that they must carry presents as If to « bride. Then he will send the girl on a trip to the sea coast, where she can wear her new clothes and have more fun than if there were @ man tagelog along. CORRALS BABY SON TO KEEP HIM HOME, BUT REMEDY | ‘Sia TEN PAGES ONE CENT JOHN A. JOHNSON HAD NEVER PROMISED 10 BE HERE ON SATURDAY First Regrettable Incident of the Fair Occurs in Un- fortunate Controversy Over Swedish Day Affair at the Exposition. ant Courtesy Shown Distinguished Visitor That ar ert ¢ and Infinitude of details of the exposition co n it tted time without some contretemps was beyond the optimt f n human bope 1 it should involve a man of the eCcognh |i anding { Gove John A. Johnson, with ts possible attendant int ute il feeling, is a ¢ « for sorrow The regrettable incident was the of a we of mistakes for which Governor Johnson ia in no wise to blame, Governor Johnson fs A man and 4 gentleman, every inch of him, and under no stress would he ale a promise. « pela the statement that the fault does not He with Governor Johneor Neither is the exposition to be blamed, but rather the emissaries of the Bwed Clab of Beattle, To the extent that these gentlemen accepted a conditional assurance from Governor Johnson a specific and definite promise, they erred. The exposition management took 4 word of these gentiemen of the edish club and ma extensive preparations which were doomed to #0 bitter a disappointment The Star cannot but dee egret the attilude of President Chil- berg toward Governor Jot While Mr, Chilberg has carefully pref. aced all bis comments with the ¢ ad Hot as an exposition officia and not of reality Prevident ( his uniform an every act he performs, which re sald and done in his executive ca admires President Chilberg protest nesota “| have never broken my word to any man. “| have net broken my word her “| make no apology and have nothing to explain. “| never promised to be at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific expo- sition on Gaturday. | did prom ine to be in Seattle on Minneso- ta day and | am here now, and will be at the exposition grounds Tuesday, which will be Minnesota day. “1 don't care any controv thing, and certainly have no de sire to put any local man or men in a bad tight with the people here, but you can say to me these public criticiams seem unbecoming and the height of indelicacy, in view of the fact that such a state as the state of Minnesota, her gov- erner and her people have taken the interest they have in the Alaska Yukon. Pacific expo- sition afd ite succe’ to enter into abeut this tatement that he spo! he Is president of the exposition and the witness an affront to Governor only as a Swede, om | ely one of words, hilberg is fo policeman who may lay vate citizen for a few hours. As every otleranee he makes, and jates to the exposition in any way, is and work he Johne The an greatly as it has done, cannot, without state of Min- apacity won and the | GOV. JOHN A. JOHNSON, they might secure as a represen- > p stateme as given to he abers nc er ogg ahd tative Scandinavian to speak on The Star for publication by Goy Joho A. Johneon of Minnesota soon that date. | suggested former Gov- poe he ore 4 in the city yester./ ©™HOr Lind, and suggested that they pt (2 jf raid slag ™ see a prominent Scandinavian who day afternoon could assist them in getting a The governor wan told of how) ccaker in the event they did not toe fair management had extensive) aoure Governor Lind ly advertised that he would be pres They left and | never saw them ent on Swedish day, of how from " é $0,000 to 40,000 people had paid 50 again, but | did receive letters urg- ; io v pa °° ing me aguin to try and be present cents each at the adinission paid an additional 25 cents at th gate and how half of this number had *-'on Swedish day, and again they asked me if in tbe event I should get into Seattle by Saturday noon = nares ie ag Fe, expecting t0/ oF gtternoon, would I go at once The governor then told of the), the exposition grounds and say futile efforts made to secure a/% few Words to 9 Swedish people promtee from him to be here inst| here: | wrote back that I would Saturday and address the people who had gathered at the fa to celebrate thelr day He Never Promised. Mr. Andrew Chilbere and M Carl J, Smith came to- Miy " and found me sick abed. The asked me to be present at the fal on Swedish day, and | told them was Impossible. It was eo definit th could not and would not be pre on this day that we dive ly understood between ed whol hadelhaantt ee D. TO SHVE HS FATHER (Hy United Prev) PORTLAND, Or, A hold Vogt, 8, erled for hi release when the vine, ordered the Swedish sent gladly do this--that the moment I got to Seattle | would hustle away to the exposition grounds and put | myself entirely In the hands of the | fair management, doing whatever c,| Was asked of ine—but I did not nor is} could I promise to be here on that ir y | date. ir! Could Not Get Here. it) “Afterwards efforts were made to © | get me to come on through to Be I) attle, and as late as Friday they (Continued on Page Bite t HORRORS! THE CHOOL GROOT m | baby there Instan the mother! ed ae a ee Ae HAD MORE THAN ONE WIFE, Climbed up on them and escaped to} SHE SAYS, AND HE LIVED the porch IN SEATTLE, She geht him rune Jown the a vi treet Next time all bi arger toy v4 talon fiend thin as . 56 al Mr. Mayor, I've begun to suspect lowed only a chair in the pen, But|that my husband has some other i the little scamp used the chair} wives, and | want you to find out for a Wed if he has any in Seattle, 1 know N ‘ 1 be ’ ; that he used to live there, and 1 ——e think he may have a wife or two in |your city, who possibly has erled just as T have Such fs the letter which w Miller's mail this Mrs. Pauline Wollis, don st, Atlanta Accompanying the letter was a ploture of the faithte hu with & number of his aliases. first paragraph of a s recelved in Maye morning = fro of 69 Mel Georgia for special intoxication, His father, | ld that he went under the name Henry Vogt, is a seaman on a coagt|Of Charles Wellnite white in Seat steamer tle, or that he might have used an Please let my papa go, Mr,|Sther name Judge,” pleaded the lad, tears cours Mf there a any other wives of ing down his cheeks Wellnitz, or Wellls, in Seattle, this Don't ery,” said Levine, “you can| Wife, Pauline, would Uke to have go back to your mothe |their addresses I don’t want to go back to her She doesn't say whether she said the ehtld {holds a grudge against any other The parents are separated posatble better halves that Wellnits might have collected here — or RK ee we ake &! Whether she wants to secure thelr * WEATHER FORECAST, «| *@beration in having the man con ss : vieted. But the mayor is of the * «Fair tonight; Tuesday faly ® | opinion that the latter presumption ® and warmer; leht west winds. %[{s cor and will forward any ins EERE EDR RR EH 0 he secures. ANSE cee SS ns DIMEN ANS NA Na